Hastorf v. Degnon-McLean Contracting Co.

ADAMS, District Judge.

This action was brought by Albert ¾. Hastorf against the Degnon-McLean Contracting Company to recover the sum of $1,720 alleged to be due for the receipt and disposition of 3,440 truck loads, at 50 cents each, of excavated material from- the-Rapid Transit Subway, received by the libellant from the respondent at his dumping board at 44th Street, North River, in September 1902.. There is no dispute as to the rate or amount, but the respondent, admitting something to be due, sought by its answer, to set off the cost of the necessary labor for receiving and unloading the…